Voting kicks off on Sunday (Dec 28) and will be held over three phases, limited to areas where the military maintains varying degrees of control.

Myanmar is all set to conduct its first general election in five years after seizing power in a coup. The question about the future of the junta and its chief, Min Aung Hlaing, remains hanging

Myanmar’s military government has charged more than 200 people with violating the Southeast Asian country’s voting law ahead of a general election at the end of the month, keeping up pressure on opponents of the polls.

Myanmar junta airstrike on village clinic kills doctor and 10 civilians - Attack targets region partly captured by rebel forces

All of this marks a stunning reversal for Myanmar’s revolutionaries. At the end of 2024 they appeared to have the junta on the run. For a time it had seemed possible that resistance forces might lay siege to Mandalay. Whispers spread that the army was on the brink of collapse.

In July, the junta passed a law aiming to prevent the “obstruction” of the election that is due to begin on December 28.

Yangon—Myanmar’s military junta denied on Saturday killing civilians in a hospital air strike that left more than 30 people dead. A military jet bombed

Tom Andrews, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, made the call at the conclusion of his official visit to the UK.

The military government is overseeing phased polls set to start on Dec 28. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Myanmar’s military junta says Wednesday’s airstrikes on a hospital in the western town of Mrauk-U that killed more than 30 people was part of a counter-terrorism operation targeting armed groups using the facility as a base for their operations.